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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-8)

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:42:17 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-8):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1)

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:42:54 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1):

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"I realized the trucking logistics business isn’t the beacon of progress or congregation of..."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:39:25 -0400

“I realized the trucking logistics business isn’t the beacon of progress or congregation of forward thinking individuals I had envisioned.”

- Chris Wanstrath gist: 6443 - GitHub

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25)

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:09:48 -0400

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25):

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"I think it comes from the fact that we live in a constantly fracturing culture. You know, when I was..."

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:05:08 -0400

“I think it comes from the fact that we live in a constantly fracturing culture. You know, when I was a kid, there were three networks, and people had more in common on the streets. Let’s put it this way: We had more in common than not in common. Well, one of the things about the Internet and the culture that’s come out of the Internet is that it’s made people cluster into micro-communities.”

- on food watching as entertainment trend Alton Brown | TV | The A.V. Club

vagile

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:54:00 -0400

Not what you thought, right?

wordjournal:

adjective • /ˈvædʒɪl/ • wandering; vagrant; free to move about.

The Perry Bible Fellowship

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:39:57 -0400

The Perry Bible Fellowship

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18)

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:12:18 -0400

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18):

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"I don’t want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that..."

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:56:45 -0400

“I don’t want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it’s not smart to bet against the power of science to figure out the natural world. It used to be, a thousand years ago, that if you wanted to explain why the moon moved through the sky, you needed to invoke God. And then Galileo and Newton came along and realized that there was conservation of momentum, so things tend to keep moving. Nowadays people say, “Well, you certainly can’t explain the creation of the universe without invoking God,” and I want to say, “Don’t bet against it.””

- Mysteries of time, and the multiverse - Los Angeles Times - Page 3

"The desire to do something well, whether it is sailing a boat or building a boat, reflects a need..."

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:56:45 -0400

“The desire to do something well, whether it is sailing a boat or building a boat, reflects a need that was previously met in the workplace. Competence was shown on the job—holidays were for messing around. Now the situation is reversed. Technology has removed craft from most occupations. This is true in assembly-line jobs, where almost no training or experience, hence no skill, is required, as well as in most service positions (store clerks, fast-food attendants), where the only talent required is to smile and say “Have a good day.””

- The Atlantic | Aug 1991 | Waiting for the Weekend | Rybczynski - Page Two

davemorin: giantrobotlasers: 50 years of exploration

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:58:44 -0400

davemorin:

giantrobotlasers:

50 years of exploration

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-11)

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:49:26 -0400

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-11):

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lepidopterology: the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:14:25 -0400

lepidopterology: the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.

The Cringing Point

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:04:44 -0400

merlin:

(or, “Yeah, but, what about people who play violin for 20,000 hours but still totally suck?”)

Books: The Social Life of Paper : The New Yorker

This is, of course, a difficult conclusion for us to accept.

Aw, yes. So many things are difficult to accept until Malcolm Gladwell explains them to us. Gather round, children, and let Uncle Malky explain why all the adults are wrong and confused. This time. Again.

Jesus.

I rag this very smart and talented man (and Christ knows someone should), but probably not for the obvious reasons.

Yes, I grit my teeth when Gladwell makes a terrific observation, then staples on some random non sequitur of a case study to “prove it,” then lovingly attaches — as my friend T. puts it — “some ridiculous bromide” about What It All Really Means.

What kills me is I agree with basically every brilliant observation the man’s ever made. His instincts are stunningly sharp and zeitgeisty, and you simply can’t dispute his ability to synthesize totally random cultural datapoints. He thinks very very well.

As in the review above, in which Gladwell turns his thoughts about a book (that frankly sounds pretty asi-asi to me) into a terrifically well written summary of some very complicated cultural traffic jams. He’s just so good at that. Seriously.

I guess I wish Gladwell were more of an old-fashioned (albeit lower status) columnist rather than an armchair Everythingologist and professional Serious Issues pundit. Sometimes, it feels like he’s reading the same wikipedia and Google Scholar articles we are, but has simply found a more effective persona for making “reading things” seem like peer-reviewed scholarship.

Put differently, I’ll bet he and I would differ wildly on which of his contributions (let alone paragraphs) will be remembered as the most effective, long-lived, and useful. For myself, I most enjoy the paragraphs where he helps me see well; not the ones where he announces surprising half-facts about how my fucking eye works.

I dunno. Guy’s a million times more intelligent and successful then I’ll ever be. But I kind of hate how he’s seduced a generation of self-satisfied people with bachelor’s degrees into gorging on his horn-rimmed buffet of insouciantly bloggable cocktail party facts. It’s like meth malteds to the thin-boned lads who worship at his probably large Canadian feet.

Smugness is such a hungry, hungry habit, friends, and everybody loves a big ole plate of contradictory. Or do they? Because a recent study shows surprising….

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-4)

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:14:45 -0400

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-4):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27)

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:24:37 -0400

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27):

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Stormtroopers’ 9/11 - CollegeHumor video

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:52:46 -0400

Stormtroopers’ 9/11 - CollegeHumor video

"In academia, where I spend my working days, most male professors and students are guys, not men. I..."

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:50:50 -0400

“

In academia, where I spend my working days, most male professors and students are guys, not men. I think that’s one reason I became a professor. I like the surprise and fire in their eyes. I like their eagerness and curiosity. Guys are capable of swooning over a new writer they’ve just discovered, or of speaking passionately about some idea. They’re nothing but possibility.

That, to me, is a guy: possibility.

”

- (via meaghano)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20)

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:22:35 -0400

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20):

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Photo

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:25:58 -0400